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   Mike  posted:   
   > On 2026-01-16 14:44, Steven Douglas wrote:   
   > > Mike  posted:   
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   > >>   
   > >> Duality is not a flaw or limited to the world.   
   > >> It is required for experience itself. To know or   
   > >> recognize anything, there must be some form of   
   > >> disagreement or contrast. Without it, there is no   
   > >> awareness — only undifferentiated being.   
   > >>   
   > >> Even in a perfect or “heavenly” state, awareness   
   > >> requires disagreement. One might ask: why must   
   > >> duality exist even in heaven? The answer is simple.   
   > >> To know good, there must be an implicit counter-   
   > >> part — not-good, neutral, or tension. Without this,   
   > >> good cannot be recognized, joy cannot be distin-   
   > >> guished from neutral, and bliss is meaningless.   
   > >>   
   > >> Light and shadow, motion and stillness, self and   
   > >> other can exist in tension.   
   > >>   
   > >> Heaven, if it allows awareness, must contain some   
   > >> form of disagreement; otherwise there is nothing   
   > >> to experience or notice.   
   > >>   
   > >> Absolute unity may exist as pure being. But once   
   > >> awareness arises, minimal disagreement appears:   
   > >> observer versus observed, knower versus known.   
   > >> This is not a flaw; it is the condition for conscious-   
   > >> ness itself.   
   > >>   
   > >> Disagreement cannot be removed without ending   
   > >> experience. Even heaven, to be experienced, must   
   > >> contain it — as the very condition for meaning,   
   > >> awareness, and recognition.   
   > >   
   > > I've often thought that the reason we're living this   
   > > life is to experience the evil that thrives in this   
   > > world. That's why we will be judged by God before we   
   > > can enter Heaven, and only those who believe in Jesus   
   > > and do the will of the Father will enter the Kingdom   
   > > of Heaven.   
   > >   
   > > [quoting Jesus] "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord,   
   > > Lord,' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but the one   
   > > who does the will of my Father in Heaven" [end quote] Matthew 7:21   
   >   
   > That's why I believe you will be rejected,   
   > turned back, denied from entering the gates.   
      
   Do you think you're the first godless heathen to ever   
   condemn me to hell? And since when did you believe in   
   the "gates" to which you referred just above?   
      
   I think it's hilarious that godless heathens want to   
   tell me that I'm going somewhere (or will be rejected   
   from somewhere else) that they don't even believe exists.   
   It's actually quite hilarious!!!   
      
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